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California rockers Slightly Stoopid have covered a lot of stylistic ground since they, as high schoolers, were first signed to Sublime leader Brad Nowell's Skunk record label. The band has previously mixed skatepunk, off-kilter pop and hip-hop...

One of the nation's hottest buzz bands, the Alabama Shakes, will play an outdoor show in Richmond in June.The band, hailed at the South By Southwest festival in March and elsewhere for putting an exciting new twist on neo-soul, will perform Friday, June...

Tool, purveyors of eerie hard rock, will clank and grind at Hampton Coliseum on Friday, Feb. 3, according to an announcement from concert promoters.Tickets to the show go on sale 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 7 at 10 a.m. from the Coliseum box office and...

It's hard to get a handle on the London rock band Noah and the Whale. Just when you think you've figured out what they're up to, they change.
On the band's 2008 debut album "Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down" Charlie Fink and friends gave us...

No, Free Music Friday isn't starting the holiday weekend early. It's just running a bit behind. You know how it goes.Today's track comes from the Portland, Ore., band Typhoon. What does it sound like? Well, it's complicated. You'll find rattling...

Chicago officials say rapper Travis Scott is facing disorderly conduct charges after encouraging fans to jump over security barricades during his performance at Lollapalooza. The rapper, whose real name is Jacques Webster, was arrested Saturday on the...

A Lollapalooza attendee who was bitten on his forearm by another concertgoer at last year's festival filed a lawsuit Friday against the alleged biter and the concessionaire that sells alcohol during the three-day Grant Park event.
The lawsuit filed by...

It may sound like an urban legend: Music festival-goers bury bottles of booze in Chicago parks, plot a GPS location for the goods and uncover them days later when the festival comes alive.
There are even Reddit threads that mention the trend...

A commuter rail in northwestern Indiana is adding extra trains and implementing tighter alcohol restrictions this weekend for the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago. The Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District has announced the South Shore...

Jim James and his band My Morning Jacket enjoy playing music festivals, but he's starting to wonder if they are too much of a good thing.
Festival gigs litter My Morning Jacket's touring itinerary this summer, including Bonnaroo in Tennessee,...

It's possible your idea of a restaurant is less broad than mine, but my favorite restaurant in this city at the moment — my favorite for the last few years — sits in an empty Brooklyn lot against the East River. That's on Saturday afternoons through...

Long before Lollapalooza became a fixture in Grant Park, long before Riot Fest and Pitchfork Music Festival and the myriad other concentrations of cultural events that have come to define the city's warm-weather entertainment scene, there was the...

Reports from Sunday, day three at Lollapalooza in Grant Park, from Greg Kot (GK),Bob Gendron (BG) and Kevin Williams (KW):
12:19 p.m.: It's never easy to be the day's opening act. For Oyinda, the performance takes on even greater significance. The...

On Friday afternoon, while a steady rain fell on Lollapalooza in Grant Park, Patrick Whelan watched warily as a handful of teenagers and 20-somethings ran for shelter beneath the nearby trees. There, waiting for the storm to pass, they drank beer and...

Nostalgia tried to crash the big weekend party in Grant Park. Five of the six headliners had played Lollapalooza before, and two of the most anticipated sets were by hip-hop artists — Eminem and OutKast — whose greatest hits are a decade old or more.
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Reports from Saturday, day two at Lollapalooza in Grant Park, from Greg Kot (GK), Bob Gendron (BG) and Kevin Williams (KW):
11:31 a.m.: Blood Orange's Dev Hynes posted several tweets after his Lollapalooza set Friday saying that he and his girlfriend had...

Reports from Friday, day one at Lollapalooza in Grant Park, from Greg Kot (GK),Bob Gendron (BG) and Kevin Williams (KW):
11:47 a.m.: Even at this early hour, entrance lines stretch longer than in years past due in part to noticeably more thorough...

At the dawn of civilization — when people would buy concert tickets because they wanted to hear music, when the purchase of that ticket implied some degree of interest in the performers onstage — there was no under-butt. At the risk of sounding older than...

Attention Lollapalooza-goers: The music festival has announced its local "Chow Town" food vendors for the Aug. 1-3 event in Grant Park.
Curated by chef and Lolla culinary director Graham Elliot, the restaurateurs are scheduled to include:...